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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… read for an augmentation of salary as collector of the penny post. Ordered that it be sent to the Treasury, to give … and the duties already laid for a longer term, and by a penny per pound on tobacco, with some other helps. I do not …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… said 7,000 l. and all his charges, and never received one penny profit out of the premises. Upon their Majesties' …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… is done. To give instances in England:In 1266 an English penny was to weigh thirty-two wheat corns of the middle of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Commons by Mr. William Dockwra, merchant, concerning the Penny Post. By statute 12 Charles II. c. 35. it was enacted … or his deputies, should carry letters for hire. The penny post, pretended by Mr. Dockwra to be a new invention, … the King, Duke or postmaster-general, for reducing the penny post into practice, that, when it was found his …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… next to Pickadelly, who is one of the receivers of the penny post letters. [ Endorsed] Mr. Castleton with a French penny post letter R. 8 Dec. 1701. [ Ibid. f. 276.] Dec. 8. … that he had given you, or anyone belonging to you, one penny for procuring the outlawry to be reversed; but what was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the highest offer for the excise, including the additional penny, was but 26, 800 l.) to roop the several shires and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… you not to disclose anything, by two letters, one by penny post, the other by a messenger, wherein I desired you …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… clappboards should be valued at (the duty will be the 20th penny) to encourage the merchants to import the same. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to be laid, are 6 d. p. pound upon whale bone, and a penny per ell upon one sort of Scotch linen and 3 farthings …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of without considering me (who have never received one penny) I opened them and found them to be all lace, except … hath promised to venture their lives and the utmost penny of their fortunes to serve their Prince, and in order …